cycling back
Have you noticed the age phenomena at movie theaters? No? Well, allow me to illustrate.
The girl that sells you the tickets is like 12. The guy who rips it and points you to the theater is like 80. The smug faces behind the concession stand (that very freshly sell you water for $6 a bottle - what’s in it? whisky? - ugh, don’t get me started) are never older than 20. The ages between 20 and 80 are lost in the movie theater world! A lifecycle mistery. The missing link…
I wonder why. You start out selling tickets. Two years later you move into selling overpriced inflated corn. Then what? You leave to better ventures (McDonald’s?). Then one day it dawns on you that the movie theater was the “shit” and so you circle back to your first job. Only this time you are the meeter-greeter.Â
Sixty years to move five feet to the right. Amazing.